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Iran and Pakistan have agreed to cooperate against human trafficking and to exchange name of agents involved, IRNAreported.

It was decided in a meeting between Ala’eddin Boroujerdi, Chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iranian Islamic Parliament, Majlis, and Pakistan’s Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

Boroujerdi noted with satisfaction that cooperation between the two countries is on a positive note.

He suggested that Iran and Pakistan should also boost their trade ties and work closely to introduce barter trade system.

While some governments are making significant strides to end modern-day slavery, the State Department on Tuesday singled out 17 others that it said were “treating victims as criminals or ignoring them entirely.”

In its 2012 report on human trafficking, the department addedSyria to the list of nations that could face American sanctions for not doing enough to combat forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. The report said the violence in Syria had weakened security and made it difficult to monitor anti-trafficking efforts.

The other countries that the report said were falling well short of standards and not making substantial efforts to improve conditions were Algeria, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Kuwait, Libya, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen and Zimbabwe.

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In the first quarter of this year 39 criminal facts in connection with human trafficking were registered in Azerbaijan, the head of department for combating human trafficking of the Interior Ministry, Javad Shikhaliyev, told Trend on Friday.

During the reporting period 17 victims of trafficking were found, four criminal groups engaged in human trafficking neutralized, seven people brought to criminal responsibility for these crimes.

Shikhaliyev said in the first quarter of this year 13 human trafficking victims were taken out to Turkey, four – Iran.

A key member of an international human trafficking ring wanted in 15 cases has been arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), The Express Tribune has learnt.

Ajib Gul, alias Raja Humayaun was not only in the FIA’s Red Book-2009 (which comprises particulars of high profile human smugglers) but also had a red warrant issued against him by Interpol on the Pakistan government’s request.

The FIA team nabbed Gul, a resident of Gujrat district, while he was trying to flee across the Azad Kashmir border to India, Gujranwala Circle FIA Deputy Director Gul Sanober confirmed while talking toThe Express Tribune.

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Ali, a resident of district Gujrat, had managed to escape an earlier FIA raid in 2010 when many of his accomplices were arrested. Ali and his associates, with help of some other people, had attacked the FIA raiding party and escaped from the scene, FIA officials said.Due to the nature of the allegations against him, Ali’s name was also included in the Exit Control List (ECL), sources said.FIA record further revealed that the accused was wanted by the FIA Rawalpindi and Gujranwala Anti Human Trafficking Circles (AHTC).The alleged human trafficker had extorted millions from a number of people on the pretext of sending them abroad particularly to European countries via Pak-Iran-Turkey-Greece, the FIA officials said.